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GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Finding consensus
on global preferences
• Democratic Accountability,
Transparency and Global Governance:
A Theoretical Approach
Cognitional vagueness
• Often associated with globalization
• What about power differential?
• A decentralized world system
To manage global affairs through
• LAWS
• REGULATIONS
• SYSTEM OF RULES
• NORMS
• ETHICAL STANDARDS
• PATTERNED REGULARITY
• A PROCESS
PROBLEMS
• No global government
• State-centric international system
• States as legitimate actors > Why?
• Change vs continuity in world affairs
• Eroding sovereignty
 legitimacy?
 accountability
PROBLEMS 2
• Democratic deficit?
• Legitimizing mechanisms
• Globalization effects (global vs local)
• Neoliberalism (unfamiliar in post-war
Europe)
• How to deal with inequality, poverty,
representation
• Who authorizes who to take action
Actors involved
• States > resistance, national interests
• Regional organizations
 Are goals defined in regional or global
terms?
 Are there conflicting goals?
Homogeneity
• Eliminating state prerogatives?
• World anarchy
• An approach with Functionalist elements?
EPILOGUE
• The reality of international politics
• Opportunities from international relations
• How to democratically cover the needs of
individuals & collectivities

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